The trial of Deer Creek Middle School shooter Bruco Eastwood turned Thursday to dueling doctors, with one testifying Eastwood was insane when he pulled the trigger and a second doctor raising doubts.

Eastwood, who has suffered from schizophrenia for nearly a decade, doesn’t contest that he shot and injured two students the afternoon of Feb. 23, 2010. His attorneys are trying to prove he didn’t know right from wrong at the time.

A succession of increasingly violent and increasingly frequent psychotic entries in Eastwood’s journal leading up to the shooting speaks to a growing disorganization in his already troubled mind, forensic psychiatrist Karen Fukutaki testified.

She and two other doctors believe Eastwood was not in his right mind at the time of the shooting.

“The theme overall is one of feeling tortured and persecuted . . . by things just not based in reality,” Fukutaki said.

Eastwood gave names to the imaginary mutant creatures that tormented him. “Timothy the Loser,” for example, transforms himself onto the dishes Eastwood is trying to wash in one entry.

In the week before the shooting, Timothy, Jeremy, Lucy, Mark, Tabitha and other figments appear in a rapid succession of entries, stealing food out of his stomach or turning the white noise in Eastwood’s head into cars passing by.

In an early entry, briefly the focus of prosecutor Steve Jensen, Eastwood wrote a letter to then-President George W. Bush that referenced Columbine High School.

“Do they ever think some of us just aren’t playing,” Eastwood wrote in the 2006 letter.

Steven Pitt, a forensic psychiatrist from Arizona who consulted on the Columbine case, had another take on Eastwood’s sanity.

He looked at the more than two hours that elapsed from the time Eastwood left his home to the time when he opened fire. And he reviewed a five-hour police interview with Eastwood immediately after the shooting.

Eastwood shows “clear signs of suffering from a mental illness,” Pitt said. But he also saw points where “there’s an awareness of what’s legal and what’s not legal.”

Eastwood, for example, acknowledged he would be in prison for a long time as a result of his actions in one statement. In another, he says smoking pot is illegal.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.